by Stewart Watkins |
Categories:
6th grade, 7th grade, black love, children, community, girl, growing up,
Little ghetto girl so sassy and sanguine
Afro puffs, old shaggy dress, and a big grin
Rushing home from school to lend mama a hand
The little shadow, learning womanhood firsthand
An excursion outside before the lights begin to flicker
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker's man, ghetto laughs before dinner
Hot Cheetos eating and Faygo Orange drinking
Hot topics talking and little boys thinking
Hopscotching and double-dutching
Finger snapping and bus stopping
Now, in the house, she goes for a hot meal and study
Tomorrow back to school to reunite with her little buddies
by Jo Bien |
Categories:
lost love
in the whisper of the wind
as the leaves of color fall
the afternoon shadows stretch
reaching skinny and tall
we skip the cracks in the sidewalk
hopscotching to avoid bad luck
laughter fills the empty void
of conversation when we are stuck
in desperation we hold on to
what little that we have left
thinking if we don't look too hard
we can continue to drift
how do we get back to there?
that safe place we used to be
when distance isn't the only thing
that's keeping you from me
as the time slips quickly away
we kiss and part as friends
always sweet, these times we meet
a circle without beginning or end